Nice job. I always intended to shoot that bridge some day but never
did. Probably because I hated to go into Boston.
Chuck Norcutt
usher99@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Included is one more shot from our hike along the Niagara River--Goat
> Island Bridge and an expanse of the Niagara River--OM-2.
>
> Marnie and I had scoped out a few vantage points in Cambridge the week
> before to try and get an interesting shot of the Zakim Bridge. We met a
> dusk after work and used the Z. 50-250, OM-2 and had to shoot through a
> chain link fence. We inadvertently blocked the progress of a "Duck
> Boat" while the shutter was open. I was oblivious to it at first, but
> the tourists were just amused.
>
> The bridge is the first in the US to us ungrouted stays for its stay
> cables. The engineers were worried in a rain storm it could vibrate and
> fail until they came up with a spiral bead as sheathing on the high
> density polyethylene used for the stays. One can see the spirals on the
> cabling as you traverse the bridge. They later had Barnum and Bailey
> traipse 14 elephants over the bridge to prove its structural integrity.
>
> Marnie had the awareness to turn around and grab a shot the other way
> with the G-9, while I was focused like a laser on the bridge.
> Mike
>
>
>
> http://www.zoto.com/gordon9213/albums/17791/
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